PlayStation Palm Legitimate Ailment
After repetitive strain injury and “texter’s thumb” researchers have identified a new skin disorder caused by excessive use of new technology — “PlayStation palm.”Caused by ...
School Spends $10G to Teach Spanish Kids Native Language
A middle school in Southern California is spending $10,000 a year to teach Advanced Placement Spanish to 35 of its 650 students -- and all but one of them are already fluent in Spanish.Thirty-four of the kids i...
Court Strikes Down Violent Video Game Law
A federal appeals court on Friday struck down a California law that sought to ban the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the 2005 law violates min...
Online Social Networking Deemed Bad for Kids’ Brains
Social networking Web sites are causing alarming changes in the brains of young users, an eminent scientist has warned. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are said to shorten attention spans, encourage in...
Boomerang Kids in Bust Economy
Jennifer Bliss was no fledgling lawyer when she moved back in with her parents. At 39, she had burned through her retirement funds after losing her law-firm job in July 2007. She gave the bank the keys to the h...
Wearing Religion on Their Record Sleeves
An L.A. exhibit of religious album covers from the 1950s, '60s and '70s reflects the post-World War II era of hula hoops and Cold War anxiety, when men still wore starched white shirts to church.In the 1960s, a...
CWC Grant to Claire Martin for Pregnant Teen Nutrition Program
The Consumer Wellness Center, led by Executive Director Mike Adams (editor of NaturalNews), has announced its fourth grant in its Nutrition Grant Program. The Consumer Wellness Center (CWC) is a 501(c)3 non-pro...
Advice: Avoid Morality in Sex Lessons
Parents should avoid trying to convince their teenage children of the difference between right and wrong when talking to them about sex, a new government leaflet is to advise.Instead, any discussion of values s...
Lowering the Legal Limit
Last fall, a group of over 100 college presidents - including the heads of Dartmouth, Virginia Tech and Duke - signed a declaration stating that the 21-year-old drinking age is not working, and fireworks went o...
Advertisers Cutting Celebrity Ties
A sputtering economy and a spate of superstar scandals are making companies more cautious about having famous faces attached to their products — and about whether they enlist celebrities at all, some mar...